The synthesis of the UV-screening pigment, scytonemin, and photosynthetic performance in isolates from closely related natural populations of cyanobacteria (Calothrix sp.)

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 484-491

  Dillon, Jesse G ^a   Castenholz, Richard W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PIGMENT; RIBOSOME DNA; SCYTONEMIN;

ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; THERMAL SPRING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CARBON; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HOT SPRINGS; INDOLES; PHENOLS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CALOTHRIX; CALOTHRIX SP.; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 0038467363     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00436.x     Document Type: Article

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